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post 1618950611 10-09-2020, 11:46 PM
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Is Better Call Saul worth watching?

Breaking bad is one of my favorite shows

but anytime i tried BCS i watched the first few episodes and couldn't really get into it

i liked Saul in breaking bad but as a minor character in a great plotline story

don't know if i can get invested in a show about a dodgy lawyer
post 1618950681 10-09-2020, 11:49 PM
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I really enjoy Better Call Saul but I'm extremely lazy about getting into a TV show so if I watch a few episodes of any show and am not enthusiastic about it, I stop watching. I detest it when people are like "just watch the first 18 episodes and then it gets good", nah GTFO kunt.

Guess I'm saying if you don't like it, don't worry about it. My main reason for liking the show is probably "Old Man Badass" Mike, such a good character. Something about watching a grumpy geriatric wearily murdering people amuses me.
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post 1618950701 10-09-2020, 11:50 PM
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It is worth watching.
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it is really slow. like they take 2 episodes worth of writing/ideas and stretch it into a 10 episode season
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post 1618951011 10-09-2020, 11:58 PM
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im gonna do it


post 1618951921 10-10-2020, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted By andyray⏩
im gonna do it


time to fap
post 1618952611 10-10-2020, 12:34 AM
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Kinda on the fence with this one, I finished 2-3 seasons before I got bored and stopped. Have you seen Dexter? Another great show.
post 1618953281 10-10-2020, 12:46 AM
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I watched it. Nothing can even get close to Breaking Bad but better call Saul is a ok watch.

It does get boring/long at times and you miss breaking bad
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No just my opinion. Writers felt the need to “make a point” too many times versus entertaining the audience. I probably made it through the first two seasons then I just couldn’t. It’s like we get it, a bunch of bad **** is going to happen to him so in act 1,312 he can unleash hell for the audience payoff you dont need to drag that out for 20 years. And for the record im speculating there. Icouldnt hang in there long enough to reach the payoff.
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It's an excellent character driven drama.
It's tone is more serious than Breaking Bad, and it's content is not as exciting. If you're into people getting shot and forging meth empires.. well.. it's not that.

Show is fantastic, and given that you know how many of the character's storylines end, it blows my mind that the show is as engaging as it is.
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post 1618956611 10-10-2020, 02:47 AM
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Originally Posted By wutevs⏩
Kinda on the fence with this one, I finished 2-3 seasons before I got bored and stopped. Have you seen Dexter? Another great show.
Watched 2 or 3 seasons, great concept, good cast, just got really boring. The writing fukked it up. BCS is better, not close.
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Originally Posted By BigElephant⏩
It's definitely worth watching, but it's very slow in pace.
Originally Posted By scooterbrah⏩
it is really slow. like they take 2 episodes worth of writing/ideas and stretch it into a 10 episode season
These. I mean, I dunno if it's worth watching, but the slow part, yeah. I gave up on the second season, I think, or maybe it was still the first.
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It's really good, but so freaking slow. If you have patience, watch it. If not, don't
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I had to stop after season 2, very slow pace to my taste.
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Basically if you have some patience and can enjoy the character development it’s excellent.

If you have ADD and need to be stimulated every 10 seconds it’s not for you
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I enjoyed it more than Breaking Bad.
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I got bored of it. Once I got done with the season where Saul's brother kills himself by burning his house down, I think season 3, I just gave up
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If you enjoyed breking bad then yes.

But doesnt mean much to a person never seen bb
Originally Posted By AlBHappy⏩
It's really good, but so freaking slow. If you have patience, watch it. If not, don't
This. It is slow but then again so was BB.

It is not a show to binge watch. Better to watch a single eo every two days or something
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I gave up second or third season. Just got boring. Was good at first.
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I kept waiting for it to get good....


....still waiting




Has to be the biggest let down of any spin off I’ve watched.
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I liked Breaking Bad a lot, and Saul was my favorite character in the show. I was beyond excited for Better Call Saul to start.

Watched 2 seasons, and haven't watched a single episode since. It's slow as hell and really just isn't that good. If I ever get super bored I might go back and watch the rest, but If that happens it will likely just be after the series is finished so I can do it all in one shot.

I wanted to see a lot of Saul Goodman, the scumbag lawyer doing all kinds of shady chit in New Mexico. Better Call Saul is some slow crap about a guy doing mostly legitimate things.
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that show sux, slow as fk nothin happens. dont do it
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It's a good show but the pacing is VERY slow. I found this recent season really good though.
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yes. not as good as breaking bad, but pretty much nothing is. still one of the best showws ive ever seen
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Absolutely. It does get slow, but Saul is enjoyable enough to make it not matter. It makes huge strides later in the series once they're past beating his sad back story into you.

For those who gripe about it "Not being Saul-like", well, you know how the BB universe goes. They really want the story to explain character history, and with Saul being the main focus (along w/Mike) it does that to a larger extent. With that comes a bunch of boring things, but it adds to the reality of it all too. You can't have crazy happenings every week and keep rooted in reality. That said, toward the later (current) series when Lalo arrives the whole series jumps off A LOT. Plenty of shady stuff going on from Saul, for those who were wanting that. Skip to the 2 most recent series if you can't be bothered to invest in the entire story
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Season 3 and 4 really pick up from the first two. Still, the first two have a few quality episodes.

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Originally Posted By Doober4⏩
I enjoyed it more than Breaking Bad.
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Originally Posted By GravityLee⏩
No just my opinion. Writers felt the need to “make a point” too many times versus entertaining the audience. I probably made it through the first two seasons then I just couldn’t. It’s like we get it, a bunch of bad **** is going to happen to him so in act 1,312 he can unleash hell for the audience payoff you dont need to drag that out for 20 years. And for the record im speculating there. Icouldnt hang in there long enough to reach the payoff.
There was none. I wanted to write that as well in my post above buT didn’t know how to explain lol

So many time you’d hope for a climax worthy scene and fuk - nothing happened.
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